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The function of a violet is to grow out of dead leaves, turning decay into itself. A poem too builds a little sense from the rubble of life (what branches grow out of this stony ******* One and the other flower according to their nature, seen by those who know what they are looking for. A violet is not a poem, but the message is the same.
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May 9, 2016
May 9, 2016 at 10:49 AM UTC
Violet *
The function of a violet is to grow out of dead leaves, turning decay into itself. A poem too builds a little sense from the rubble of life (what branches grow out of this stony ******* One and the other flower according to their nature, seen by those who know what they are looking for. A violet is not a poem, but the message is the same.
The quotation in brackets is from TS Eliot's "The Waste Land".
paul-hansford
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May 9, 2016
May 9, 2016 at 10:49 AM UTC
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